Economic Quote by Ted Waitt

Windows is probably the most important product in the entire PC industry. Everything we do in terms of supporting touch, new hardware, accessibility has…

— Bill Gates

Windows isn't supposed to make sense, it's supposed to make money.

— Paul Lutus

Microsoft looks at new ideas, they don't evaluate whether the idea will move the industry forward, they ask, 'how will it help us sell…

— Bill Gates

The future of Windows is to let the computer see, listen and even learn.

— Bill Gates

I think Windows 8 is a catastrophe for everyone in the PC space. I think we'll lose some of the top-tier PC/OEMs, who will…

— Gabe Newell

I don't try to be a threat to MicroSoft, mainly because I don't really see MS as competition. Especially not Windows-the goals of Linux…

— Linus Torvalds

I am not out to destroy Microsoft, that would be a completely unintended side effect.

— Linus Torvalds

People tend to overestimate the short-term impact of technological change. In the short-term, it's not going to make that much of a difference.

— Stewart Butterfield

When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it…

— Bill Gates

We don't spend our days thinking about Microsoft or trying to get revenge on Microsoft. That's a really negative and backward way, and that's…

— Mitchell Baker

No consumer product improves more drastically, year after year, than the computer.

— Clive Thompson

As an investor in small companies, I don't care how rich Microsoft is. I care about what my opportunities are.

— Esther Dyson